The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jan. 24, 1949

Along Fifth Avenue (music by Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Tom Adair;
sketches by Charles Sherman & Nat Hiken; produced by Arthur Lesser) is
anything but Fifth Avenue-ish, and not often much credit to Broadway.
An all-too-intimate revue, it bawls out brash ditties, features
loud-colored, low-cut skits, winks its eye and wiggles its hips in such
decorous Fifth Avenue spots as Washington Square and Rockefeller
Center.

Here & there the show has a nice rowdy zip, but oftener it is just
brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical
dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way...